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Best Earbuds and Headphones That Can Handle the Sweatiest Workouts

I’ve tested a lot of wireless earbuds and headphones at the gym over the years. While just about any model works fine, some are better suited for gym use and other sports than others, particularly in terms of design. Sports buds are not only sweat- and water-resistant, but they often have sport fins or ear hooks to help keep them securely attached to your ears. And earbuds with an open design, including clip-on models that attach to your ears like earrings, let you hear the outside world for safety. For even more workout audio options, check out our best bone-conduction headphones, best running headphones, best clip-on earbuds and best true-wireless sports earbuds with ear hooks lists.. Pros. Improved design: buds are 20% lighter, case is 33% smaller, and ear hook is slimmer, incorporating nickel-titanium alloy. Equipped with Apple’s more powerful H2 chip. Improved noise canceling and natural-sounding transparency mode. Very good sound quality. Excellent voice-calling performance with new microphones and voice accelerometers to help pinpoint your voice. Built-in heart-rate sensors. Physical control buttons work well during athletic activities. Improved design and sound quality with smaller case. Strong battery life and wireless charging. Cons. Premium price. Some users may not get a tight seal with included ear tips. A few features missing from AirPods Pro 2 (no Precision Finding, Conversation Awareness or Adaptive Audio). Some Apple-exclusive features unavailable to Android users. Built-in heart-rate monitor may not seem like a needed feature to some people. Why I like them. Read full review Jump to details. Pros. Comfortable fit and good build quality. Strong sound for open earbuds, with large 11×20 mm dual-diaphragm drivers. Good battery life (up to 12 hours). Noise reduction technology takes the edge off ambient sound. Good voice-calling performance. Wireless charging. Cons. Fairly pricey. Noise reduction feature doesn’t muffle sound as well as AirPods 4 with Noise Cancellation. 9.2/10 CNET Score. Why I like them. While I didn’t get the new H3 chip I had hoped for, or a charging case that doubles as a Bluetooth transceiver for in-flight entertainment, I did get most of what I wanted from the AirPods Pro 3. The changes may seem incremental to some folks, but key elements — fit, sound quality, noise cancellation and a single-charge battery life — have all seen noticeable upgrades.. Read full review Jump to details. Pros. Design upgrades to the buds and ear tips improve their fit. Noise cancellation has been upgraded and is now top-notch. They sound better, with improved bass response and more clarity. Built-in heart-rate monitoring with new sensors. Excellent voice-calling performance (upgraded microphones). Battery life rated for up to eight hours (up from six for AirPods Pro 2). Cons. They still use the H2 chip found in the AirPods Pro 2. Heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps. While they work with Android, many of their features

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Rabbit’s Cyberdeck is a modern take on a netbook

When you think of an AI-forward PC, you might think of something like NVIDIA’s $3,999 DGX Spark — a computer with enough computing power to run complex large language models locally. That’s not what Rabbit is trying to build with Project Cyberdeck. Instead, the company’s goal is to produce a device tailored for vibe coding, and Engadget was given an exclusive first look at the upcoming PC. Rabbit began working on Project Cyberdeck after the company’s CEO, Jesse Lyu, saw how much his software engineers were using Claude Code. Lyu thought a small form factor PC, like the netbooks that were popular in the late aughts, with a command line interface would be ideal for on-the-go vibe coding, but when he went online to look for something that fit the bill, he was disappointed.”They all come with shitty rubber dome keyboards,” Lyu says of low-cost PCs like the latest Chromebooks, which use flexible silicone sheets under their keys to save on space and cost. “They’re not something you would enjoy typing on for an extended period of time.” So Rabbit decided to build its own device. For inspiration, Lyu and company looked to an unlikely source: the Sony Vaio P. The Cyberdeck takes inspiration from the Sony Vaio P. SonySony’s netbook was only briefly available from the start of 2009 to about the end of 2010. At the time, the 8-inch Vaio P was the world’s lightest netbook, weighing just 1.4 pounds, but it had a host of issues. It was also expensive, costing considerably more than other Intel Atom notebooks of the time. In 2009, the most affordable Vaio P would set you back $900 (about $1,365 adjusted for inflation). With Project Cyberdeck, Rabbit is aiming for a device that costs about $500, and hopefully avoids a similar fate.I saw a few early renders of Project Cyberdeck, which Rabbit isn’t ready to share publicly yet. Imagine a cross between the Rabbit R1, Vaio P and the original Nintendo DS. It looks cute. All the renders had four USB-C ports to allow users to connect the device to external monitors and peripherals, though the actual IO specs are as-yet undecided. The company is in the process of sourcing components and working towards a final design, so details can — and will — change. I saw some of the parts Lyu has been testing in his office, but no final prototype as such. For one, Rabbit still needs to decide on a chipset. The company is aiming for a performance benchmark relative to the Raspberry Pi 5, which has a Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core Arm Cortex A76 processor clocked at 2.4GHz. With 16GB of RAM, the Raspberry Pi 5 can run two external monitors, a capability Rabbit hopes to match with the Cyberdeck. The idea here is to make a device that’s powerful enough it won’t feel slow when it’s communicating with Anthropic and OpenAI’s servers, but affordable enough to make it a no-brainer purchase for developers. The company confirmed Project Cyberdeck will run Linux. Rabbit will allow users to modify the operating system and install any third

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My Favorite Gaming Headphones From SteelSeries Cured My Battery Anxiety

I’ve used a lot of great wireless gaming headsets, but this pair from SteelSeries helped me stop worrying about battery life, making them worth the high price.